harvest supper
Example Sentences
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This was the night which had been selected by Sergeant Troy — ruling now in the room of his wife — for giving the harvest supper and dance.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas
At the harvest supper or dinner the man who “carried the Pig” gets one or more dumplings made in the form of pigs.
From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir
The common meal, like the festival at the old tribal folkmote—the mahl or malum—or the Buryate aba, or the parish feast and the harvest supper, was simply an affirmation of brotherhood.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz
Alas, the glad and sad times alike must die, and the dull prose of October follows hard on the wild jollity of the harvest supper, while Winter peers with haggard gaze over Autumn's shoulder!
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James
"Evy Austen put it into poetry, the eldest of the girls, and they made me recite it at the harvest supper."
From A Mere Accident by Moore, George (George Augustus)
